{"id":47757,"date":"2015-01-07T04:00:18","date_gmt":"2015-01-07T04:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/npr_in_reversal_belgium_denies_inmates_request_to_die\/"},"modified":"2015-01-07T04:00:18","modified_gmt":"2015-01-07T04:00:18","slug":"npr_in_reversal_belgium_denies_inmates_request_to_die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=47757","title":{"rendered":"(NPR) In Reversal, Belgium Denies Inmate&#39;s Request To Die"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Days before he was scheduled to die, inmate Frank Van Den Bleeken has been told he won&#8217;t be allowed to die from an assisted suicide, despite his request. Last fall, a court approved a deal that would have allowed him to end his life.<\/p>\n<p>The planned euthanasia was called off this week, after the doctor who was to oversee the procedure backed out. Belgian justice officials said Tuesday that they will work out a better solution for Van Den Bleeken.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/thetwo-way\/2015\/01\/06\/375403809\/in-reversal-belgium-denies-inmate-s-request-to-die\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Days before he was scheduled to die, inmate Frank Van Den Bleeken has been told he won&#8217;t be allowed to die from an assisted suicide, despite his request. Last fall, a court approved a deal that would have allowed him<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=47757\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,39,50,175,463,438,168,200,104,114,96,184,102,129,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-anthropology","category-belgium","category-death-burial-funerals","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-europe","category-health-medicine","category-law-legal-issues","category-life-ethics","category-parish-ministry","category-prisonprison-ministry","category-psychology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}